I can't believe so many people here are saying, "Good idea, good idea, we should do that here."

"framing effect"

Best comment in a long time on /.
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I was at a local Indian place the other day for some lunch off-hours.

In the 20 minutes I was there they had three tables going and four takeout orders.

The idea that they are losing money on every order is silly. They wouldn't participate.

Even if they're breaking even (doubtful at $4 per samosa and $16 for chickpeas and rice) they can get better pricing on their inputs in larger volumes.

If they do better as a business by catering to an affluent crowd that doesn't want to go out then that's good for me because they'll stay in business.

I would probably need to be laid up in a full body cast to order delivery for myself, but whatever.

Every human after the last generation could say the same thing, for thousands of years "life has been getting better than the previous generation".
 
The big difference now is most of the civilized, educated world is just that - civilized and educated, taught that life is different than it really is, disconnected from the death and disease of yesteryear, taught that life is 'fair' and people are treated fairly, that people care.
 
And, again, you missed a big difference - the word "disconnected". When in the past life was hard I had a village or community rally around me. That doesn't happen for most people today outside of some small village types and religions. Many, many, many people live their quiet lives of desperation *completely* disconnected from reality, from care, from touch. THAT is new, and if you don't think it is, you haven't really studied history. Did people have shit disease that made life miserable with no medicine and no hope in previous generations? OF COURSE but you had hope and prayer and community. MOST (not all) do NOT have this today. If you think they do, *you* are the one who is disconnected from the reality of modern life for most of modern humanity.

I am not looking only at my part of the job - again, I *actually* worked there on the team that did this. Let me reiterate - the first generation macintosh to use an x86 chip was a Mac Pro workstation with 2 processors, designed and built entirely inside VSD by ~30 people. The look and feel, specs, and design all came from Apple. The actual server board used was more or less "off the shelf" with some slight modifications for multi gfx support and EFI only bios - it wasn't until the 3rd gen of x86 designs that apple took this in house and stopped using a BTX layout. There was no tech marketing, no benchmarking teams, no one testing games or lots of SAS RAID cards in this thing, no in house design or UX 'experience' psych tests....
 
Want to include the teams that built the xeon processor and the intel networking chipset and the pre-release chip/board testers and etc? Ok sure its a *LOT* more, but none of them signed an NDA and worked in the closed secure lab that had this board and case, but at that point you may as well include Linus Torvalds since we used Linux on large parts of the pre-release validation.

The world is more broken and disconnected than ever before. There's less human interaction, community, and peace than ever before. There's more social pressure to be a certain way, to act a certain way. There's less ability and knowledge to feed yourself and the factory produced foods are more expensive than ever. Human work is being devalued and we're losing the battle against the oligarchs.
 
I'm sure a small percentage are trollers who want to see how GPT responds to talk about suicide but 1 million *in a week* are signs to me of societal illness, if you didn't just need to look at the newspapers to see this. Even if they are just trolling....suicide is a strange thing to try and troll a chatterbot with, fixating on this topic and talking about it, even as a joke, are subconscious signs of struggle.

In the mobile space this is basically why Valve (unlike their competitors) is not releasing a new console with slightly bumped up specs every few months, or why the line-up of Steam Decks only vary in specs (storage, screen type, cosmetics) that don't affect performance (same APU for all, the gains from the newer process used in newer OLED's APU is used to reduce power consumption, not make the APU go faster. The entry level and the top of the line Steam Deck will give you the same FPS) (unlike, e.g, Ally vs Ally X which have different APUs).
This means that the Steam Deck has been a stable target to optimize for.

(And the Steam Deck is also useable as a portable computer, too).

Trump guts nuclear safety regulations

“The president signed a pair of orders on Friday aimed at streamlining the licensing and construction of nuclear power plants — while panning the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for its ‘myopic’ radiation safety standards.”

We now have industry capture of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

Who here knows about Admiral Hyman RIckover? All of this is worth reading:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyman_G._Rickover#Safety_record

I would be.

The Department of Energy is selling off more than 40,000 pounds of weapons-grade plutonium from the Cold War arsenal to nuclear reactor startups. All of which I’m sure will be thoroughly vetted and monitored, because this is done under the direction of a former board member. Yikes!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Wright

Who IS Oklo, Inc. the "private nuclear reactor builder/operator"? Oklo is Sam Altman:

Trump Administration Providing Weapons Grade Plutonium to Sam Altman

We're in territory where weapons-grade plutonium is being given at fire-sale prices to billionaires who's ethical boundaries include creating their own demand for otherwise unnecessary, high-risk energy projects. Guys like Altman, who get their ideas from Wikipedia articles about Ayn Rand — because they are one rung lower than people who actually READ that garbage.

But I'm sure no inventory of hot nuke metal will ever go missing.

I have a Honda with an obsolete "infotainment" system, but at least it has an Aux In next to a USB port that provides power, so I can plug in an $11 UGreen dongle and listen to whatever I feel like. If I cared there are some nice 7" 1080p screens for cheap in the Raspberry Pi space that could be shoehorned in and run at 12V. But I'd rather have no screen at all.

Funny thing is that UGreen pairs faster than any other bluetooth device I have and never doesn't work. For eleven bucks.

With the fickleness of Google and Apple there's no chance they'll even support the current CarPlay and Android Auto in 20 years. I like to keep my vehicles 15-30 years, depending on how well they handle rust.

Maybe Crutchfield will make bypass harnesses for these systems in ten years when absolutely nothing works but the screen and speakers are still useful.

We really should be looking for standards at that level, so the compute modules could be upgraded after the manufacturer abandons their platforms.

As Louis says, you shouldn't be a felon for disabling ads on your refrigerator that you never agreed to.

The reason for the rules seems like common sense to me. There is a certain distance needed to stop or change lanes when driving at highway distance. If the truck breaks down just over a hill, cars won't see it early enough unless the warning signals are put further back where they can be seen coming up the hill.

I seriously doubt that these rules were just shit someone made up. The NHTSA has so many studies regarding road regulations and guidance. They might be outdated for modern technology, and might be worse than newer alternatives - I don't doubt that hasn't been studied yet - but I would absolutely wager that there were studies done to justify the original numbers.

Furthermore, when congress delegated regulatory power to these agencies they included laws dictating how the rules needed to be determined, specifically so you can't have a bunch of political hacks changing them on a whim. Changes to the regulation need to be justified, and there needs to be comment period to gather any information and concerns that the agency itself might have overlooked, respond to the comments and incorporate any changes as appropriate. I don't want regulators to be able say "this is just some crap" and change rules every four years because they shoot from the hip. That means that changes take 1-3 years depending on how complicated and motivated the agency is, but it is worthwhile to end up with better regulations and avoid being constantly jerked around.

Normally, developers are focused on making the product do something, but security is the inverse: it's making sure the product cannot do some things.

  It's difficult enough to hire good developers who can make products that do stuff, but hiring ones can ensure it doesn't do anything bad requires that you find the people who really knows their shit and have the imagination to identify all the things a product shouldn't do.

Likewise, organizational leadership, project management, QA, etc, have got to be bought into it.

Are you sure those weren't 8"? The first single side/single density 5.25" I thought had 90KB. What system had such a non-standard amount of storage for 5.25"?

Not really lots of groups, just VSD - the first x86 Mac Pro took just a few months to develop and was a relatively light-lift for Intel. It was a dual processor workstation motherboard that was slightly repurposed, using a slightly modified off-the-shelf EFI bios with the legacy side removed (EFI aka tiano was really new at the time), and a few ATI graphics adapters. The laptops didn't come until later and leveraged our initial work.
 
Apple - Apple never changes. Their focus on secrecy was paramount. We all had to sign NDAs to even know about it, and it was kept in a locked lab inside the locked lab. Out of the 10 people on my team I was the only one working on it, and it was the same for most of the dev/validation teams. There was even a re-work station built inside the locked lab for this and the boards were not allowed to leave the room.
 
Most of the heavy lifting (software side and case design) was done outside Intel as OSX was shipped to us for testing already compiled and running for x86 around half-way through the project testing. We used test platforms until we got the chassis, which was more or less similar to existing powerpc mac pro workstations but adapter to size/power reqs. We had to recompile and adapt our stress/testing tools and modify the BIOS code to fit what apple wanted. Before we received the actual OSX code, most of the testing was done using Linux, I'm sure Redhat or Suse since those are what we tested with in the lab.
 
We also did a project around the same time for Google with a stripped down headless serverboard, but I remember less details about that, and it was even less people required to get that one off the ground and never really took off since google took the design in-house after that. I think we did the first two iterations for Apple before they took over designing their own boards and bios stack.